Fight Academy can confirm that International Boxing Federation Light Heavyweight Champion Clinton Woods will defend against Australian Jason DeLisle at the Ponds Forge Centre in Sheffield, England on May 13. The hometown hero from the Steel City will be the main event of the sister show to Ricky Hatton’s American invasion the same night in…
Hobson also revealed that his £1million offer to Joe Calzaghe to move up and fight Woods has been turned down by Calzaghe’s promoter Frank Warren. Hobson made his offer to Warren mid-week but, sadly, the offer was rejected out of hand.
Maloney Promotions are sorry to announce that the 5th of May contest between Jamie Moore and Matthew Macklin for the British light-middleweight title has had to be called off. Jamie Moore has been suffering with a re-occurance of an old injury, a shoulder problem that has kept him from working or punching in the gym.
Caribbean heavyweight champion Sherman “The Caribbean Tank” Williams (29-10-2, 16 KOs) added the NBA World title belt to his display case with a sensational third-round TKO of veteran “Dangerous” David Washington (15-9, 9 KOs) last Friday night (March 31) at the new Ybor City Multi Fight Complex in Tampa, Florida.
Click for larger image © Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing Yesterday at a posh bistro in Bristol, promoter Chris Sanigar held the official weigh-in for tonight’s hotly anticipated fightcard headlined by Commonwealth Flyweight Champion Lee Haskins’ title defense against the vastly more experienced former IBO kingpin Zolile Mbityi of South Africa. The terrific bill taking…
Undefeated and Undisputed World Middleweight Champion Jermain “Bad Intentions†Taylor knows something about big fights, as he’s coming off two epic wins over Bernard Hopkins and is now preparing for a third straight mega fight, this one against Winky Wright on Saturday, June 17th at the FedexForum in Memphis, Tennessee. So who better to ask…
Click for larger image© Karl Stubbs Promoters Impact Boxing revealed today that they had received an approach by Sports Network (Frank Warren) regarding the possibility of, popular Stoke lightweight, Scott Lawton becoming a future opponent of Olympic silver medal winner, Amir Khan. Impact Boxing’s Mick Carney said: “We have a number of opponents in mind…
Don’t Bet Against Judah! When Zab Judah, 34-3 (25), lost his WBC Welterweight Championship to Carlos Baldomir back on January 8 of this year, many boxing fans thought that the prescheduled super fight between Judah and Floyd Mayweather, 35-0 (24), would not happen or at least would be postponed to a later date. Mayweather had…
The Ten Most Exciting Fighters In The History Of Boxing Let’s tell the truth for a second. What would we as boxing fans rather see? A classic boxing match or a fight, that no matter what the outcome, had us on our toes from bell to bell? I appreciate a classic match, believe me I…
Click for larger image © Karl Stubbs Former jump Jockey, Ian Clyde, will make his professional boxing debut in the light-welterweight division on 6th May 2006 at The Kings Hall, Stoke-on-Trent.
Guillermo “El Felino” Jones will face Steve “USS” Cunningham for the IBF cruiserweight title when the 20th anniversary celebration of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING continues on Cinco de Mayo weekend with a world championship doubleheader Saturday, May 6, on SHOWTIME (9 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the west coast) at the DCU Center in Worcester, Mass.
Cestus Management’s 140-pound top ranked terror “Mighty†Mike Arnaoutis is scheduled to face Mike Walker on the under card of this Friday’s ESPN 2 Friday Night Fights show which is promoted by Joe DeGuardia’s Star Boxing in association with One Punch Promotions. “Mighty†Mike’s advisor Mike Michael said, “We are very excited to be a…